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This guy has skills and building a beast of beauty

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69sprite

69sprite

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Gang,

I realize this is not Spridget, but I had to see how many of you were keep watch on Jim Stabe's progress build of a WAY modified MGB.

Jack Laird started a thread about this on the MGB forum some time back, which I picked up on and was reminded of when I went out to Garage Journal forum recently.

Jim has skills (and guts) beyond anything I could imagine.....He is getting close to the initial tests on his car after over 3 year journey....

You might be interested in keeping watch over the next few weeks or so.....

Here is the link: https://forum.britishv8.org/read.php?13,7581

This gets you to the home page for his journal...and then sections 1 & 2 point you to the next section, but section 3 doesn't have a link to section 4, so you have to go back to the home back to get his most recent updates...

Hope you all enjoy..

Larry
 
HealeyRick said:
Jim's got some amazing fab skills and is willing to tackle just about anything, for example forming his own windshield. I like the fact that this same car was first V8 swapped in 1971 and featured in Hot Rod.
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It is amazing! I am just at the windshield part of the story also.
 
There is a guy in Europe who basically did the same kind of fabrication with a VW Bus to accomodate a Porsche 968 engine.

https://www.race-taxi.ch/

The video section is a lot of fun to watch. Like Jim, this guy has some amazing fabrication skills and the end product is absolutely wild.
 
HealeyRick said:
Jim's got some amazing fab skills and is willing to tackle just about anything, for example forming his own windshield. I like the fact that this same car was first V8 swapped in 1971 and featured in Hot Rod.
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I ran through the build in a hurry a couple of times and missed the bit about forming his own windshield. Will it be GLASS???

Plexi is no really big deal.

Kurt.
 
He cut some glass from a big American car windshield, and made the frame to match.
 
OK, that makes sense. Still quite an accomplishment! The whole project is kinda mind blowing!

Kurt.
 
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